/*
 * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
 * contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
 * this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
 * The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
 * (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
 * the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
 *
 *      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
 *
 * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
 * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
 * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
 * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
 * limitations under the License.
 */

package org.apache.camel.kafkaconnector.common.clients.kafka;

import java.util.Properties;

/**
 * An interface to produce properties that can be used to configure a Kafka consumer. The
 * CLI runtime equivalent for this file is the consumer.properties file from the Kafka
 * provided along with the Kafka deliverable
 *
 */
public interface ConsumerPropertyFactory {

    /**
     * Gets the properties used to configure the consumer
     * @return a Properties object containing the set of properties for the consumer
     */
    Properties getProperties();
}
